Goodbye ethanol subsidy

Posted on January 9, 2012 by ChrisA

Thank you Tea Party.

Good riddance.

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It’s not too late to Stock Up

Posted on January 9, 2012 by ChrisA

Home Depot in Longmont also has 100w incandescent light bulbs on display. Can’t miss them as you walk in the store.

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“Was this garbage written by hardcore dyed-in-the-wool southern racists seeking to inflame old passions? Or was it someone with a stake in demonstrating that racism in the twenty-first century U.S. is alive and well?”

Posted on January 9, 2012 by ChrisA

Oh, I’m betting on the second option.

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A better 2012!

Posted on January 8, 2012 by ChrisA

Explanation of Benefit Forms for 2011.

Our daughter had 6 stays in Children’s Hospital in 2011 (and one in 2010). Thanks to Assurant Health for paying all bills that were their responsibility. I’d say they totaled somewhere between $200 to $300 thousand.

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“New airport? When the country’s supposedly going to be swallowed by the waves at any moment?”

Posted on January 8, 2012 by ChrisA

LOL! Boulderites would love to do this.

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A shortage made in Washington

Posted on January 5, 2012 by ChrisA

Prescription drugs

Of course, when government creates a crisis, who(m) better to address the crisis but, you guessed it, government and our pandering politicians. Just ask Diana DeGette.

If there’s a shortage of drugs, it doesn’t take much of an IQ to figure out why. THERE IS NO PROFIT. If the government wants to help, it can change regulations such that they are less expensive to manufacture or it can stop the price controls… OR … government can ride to the rescure and try to legislate a solution to a problem it legislated into existence. Doesn’t that sound like a model of efficiency? It’s a solution that a Boulderite can love.

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“Iran will not repeat its warning … “

Posted on January 3, 2012 by ChrisA

And I hope we only repeat our warning a maximum of a single time.

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All my friends are Principle engineers

Posted on January 2, 2012 by ChrisA

Good grief, if they are smart enough to be Principal Engineers, seems like they would be smart enough to use the correct word in their job title.

One has to wonder if their business cards are correct! Good grief Charlie Brown.

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Obama’s Signing Statement on NDAA: ‘I have the power to detain Americans… but I won’t’

Posted on January 1, 2012 by ChrisA

I agree the odds are quite low. That said, you can trust him I sure don’t.

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Boulderites, it NOT too late to stock up!

Posted on January 1, 2012 by ChrisA

100w incandescents on sale at the Boulder Home Depot, New Years Day, 2012.

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Three years and one college degree later, he cannot imagine a scenario in which he would consider voting for the president’s re-election.

Posted on January 1, 2012 by ChrisA

Good news!

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Obama bumper sticker removal kit

Posted on December 31, 2011 by ChrisA

Even works on your Prius.

Order your BS Removal Kit today!

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Better Hurry: Incandescent lights

Posted on December 31, 2011 by ChrisA

Get your 100 watt incandescent bulbs while you still can.
From the comments…

Every time the do-gooder nanny state shoves something down our throat “for our own good,” you can bet it’ll be found later that it wasn’t safer/better after all. If it were better, safer, or more economical, it wouldn’t be necessary to legislate its competition out of business.

The same people who are telling us today that fluorescent light bulbs are going to save Mother Gaia are the very ones who have been warning us about the dreadful dangers from the “mercury” in vaccines, the mercury in seafood, and the mercury amalgam in dental fillings. When these dense folk find out that breaking one of these things by accident will make their home the site of a minor mercury spill, you can expect a panic/anti-fluorescent backlash. Perhaps you’ll even be able to make a profit on your stock of these lovely, reliable Sylvania bulbs.

Personally, I’m less worried about potential mercury poisoning than about a potential uptick in suicides brought about by the deathly green pallor of curly-bulb lights. But me, I’ll be basking in my warm incandescent glow, having stocked up on these while I had the chance.

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Some of the other comments make for entertaining reading as well.

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Obama and Boulder swing voters

Posted on December 31, 2011 by ChrisA

I had beers last night with a group that definitely tilts liberal, although they may not qualify as “Boulder liberals”. If their opinions are representative, I’d say Obama is in trouble. Frankly, I was surprised.

I have no doubt that Obama will carry Boulder with ease, the guilt ridden SUV driving Boulder hypocrites would vote for Obama no matter what he did. However, outside the 24 square miles, I’d say Obama is in trouble.

Color me “happy”. My New Year’s wish is a single term for President Obama.

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“And people in the swing state of New Hampshire are very comfortable letting their neighbors know that they’re voting Republican this year.”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by ChrisA

Hard for Boulderites to imagine.

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“It’s nice to see the workers and peasants stand up to their oppressors”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by ChrisA

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Glenn Reynolds: Traffic laws are for little people

Posted on December 30, 2011 by ChrisA

Public employee union defends Denver cop who was fired for driving drunk at 143 mph

Ed Morrissey:

This is so patently absurd that I barely know what to say about it. Is it a union’s job to protect its members from ever bearing the consequences of poor behavior? Apparently so, as not even breaking the law seems to qualify as grounds for the dismissal of a public employee union member. (Consider, too, that the man in question was himself a police officer, whose very job is to uphold the law.) The union mentality seems to be: Members should be able to be not only lazy or ineffective but even negligent and irresponsible and still keep their jobs. The worst part: Just as was the case before he was fired, if Saunders is reinstated, it’ll be taxpayers who pay his salary.

This kind of nonsense helps to explain why unions are on the cusp of losing all credibility.

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Comment:”leave it to the stupid, incompetent Republicans to not be able to even save the 100-watt lightbulb!’

Posted on December 30, 2011 by ChrisA

Amen.

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Lessons from Britain on Governement medicine

Posted on December 30, 2011 by ChrisA

John Hinderaker: This is life under government medicine–a shell game in which the paramount objective is not treatment of patients, but perpetuation of a bureaucracy.
Coming soon to the United States. Here is what progressives can’t seem to understand:

Britain’s National Health Service has taken a lot of heat because patients often wait a year or more for operations, and many die in the meantime. The NHS could have responded to this criticism by making its operations more efficient so that waiting times could be reduced, like a private company would, for fear of losing business to competitors. But in government medicine, such incentives are lacking. So the NHS did the next best thing: it started rotating people out of the hospital prematurely to make room for new patients, thereby reducing the new patients’ waiting time, but increasing the likelihood that the prior round of patients would need to return.

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But when you live in an environment where corporations are evil and government has the answers to all the problems, you have a giant blind spot. Boulderites have this giant blind spot and the local newspaper has an even larger one.

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After GMO’s, the next stop for Boulder Activists…

Posted on December 29, 2011 by ChrisA

Nanotech Fear Peddlers Are Back, Insisting ‘Here Be Monsters’

I was going to make this a 2011 nanotech year-in-review column, but then I got to thinking about one of the biggest threats that could face nanotech in 2012. The nanotech Luddites are back with their “precautionary principle” — a philosophy that says whatever fears environmental fringe groups concoct must surely be true because there have been no studies to contradict them. Therefore, here be monsters.

“Friends of the Earth” (quotation marks are mine, since their actions call into question whether they are, indeed, allies of my home planet) is one such group.

Just because they say they are friends of the earth, does not make it so. In fact, they have an anti-technology agenda, the same kinds of folks who ensured that “genetically modified foods” is a dirty phrase in some parts of the world, contributing further to world hunger. Many people have suffered due to lack of access to technology based on the say-so of groups with this kind of agenda. They are not environmentalists, as many in the mainstream media say. They are environmental activists. I would even take the environmental out of it. They are one-issue Luddites who take the hammer to anything that they consider “unnatural.”

h/t to Instapundit.

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